2nd arrest made in Mount Vernon fire

A second person was charged today with setting fire last week to a Mount Vernon apartment where a man's body was found.

Jim Woods, The Columbus Dispatch

A second person was charged today with setting fire last week to a Mount Vernon apartment where a manís body was found.

Jedidiah Lang, 31, of 114 E. Sugar St., Mount Vernon, was in the Knox County jail tonight. A county grand jury indictment delivered today accuses Lang of aggravated arson in connection with a fire set Thursday to the apartment at 209 Shirley Ave.

Amber Pilotti, 31, of Fredericktown, whom police arrested Sunday, also was indicted on aggravated arson charges in the case today.

Firefighters found the body of Brad Grosscup, 52, in the burned apartment. An autopsy showed that Grosscup had died before the fire.

Police have not commented on whether more charges are expected in the case.